The Shakedown Presents
Tim Kliphuis & Jimmy Grant, Pace Trumpet
Dynamic Django jazz duo from Holland and LA
About
“Superb … a provocative meeting of minds” - Sunday Times “Playfully inventive and technically brilliant” - Time Out "Jimmy Grant is a superb Django-style player, someone who understands the master’s inherent lyricism, creating resonant melodies full of memorable phrases” -Michael Steinman Jazz LivesAward-winning violin legend Tim Kliphuis (Holland) teams up with America’s rising star on manouche jazz guitar Jimmy Grant (LA) to celebrate the music of famed musical duo, Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt. Re-creating the 1930s in Paris, and drawing inspiration from current-day classical and folk music as well, they alternate moments of dazzling interplay with melancholy and sheer exhilaration, in an inspired conversational journey that is different every night.Featuring an opening set by Bellingham's Pace Trumpet, a rotating regional collective of musicians specializing in early jazz and blues.
Lineup
- Tim Kliphuis Headliner
- Jimmy Grant
- Pace Trumpet
- Tim Kliphuis
- Jimmy Grant
- Ružno Pače
- Pace Trumpet